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Trying to get home on the train after a long day at school is hard enough but, what about when a group of salarymen armed with katana try to ambush you on the station platform? Check out what happens as a schoolgirl fights back and see if your eye...

The Pokemon franchise turned 20 this year, and in the years since 1996, the amount of pocket monsters has increased from 151 to, as of this exact moment, 722. No better time, then, to create a list of Pokemon's top 20 hunks.

Arc System Works revealed in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine that their fighter BlazBlue: Central Fiction is headed to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. Additionally, the game will add a new character with Es from Xblaze.

Steamforged Games revealed that they will be teaming up with Bandai Namco Entertainment to create a Dark Souls board game. A Kickstarter campaign will be started sometime this month to help support the project, yet no exact date has been released.

Legendary anime studio GAINAX, of Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, and Gurren Lagann fame, has entered the tomato business. Yes, you read that right. Remember that time last year when world-famous anime Evangelion teamed up with Kagome, a Japanese m...

The first promotional video for the 6th OVA short of the TV anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata's One Punch-Man manga has been released. The video itself briefly teases some of the moments from the 10 minute OVA.

Maeda Atsuko will release her first solo album (currently untitled) on June 22. June 22 marks the anniversary of the release of her solo debut single "Flower" (2011). Now, five years after its release, she is finally working on a full-length album.

Apparently it's possible to create something other than burned fingers when using hot glue. We've seen some pretty amazing unconventional art recently, with sculptures made out of used tires and plastic figures being "dissected.

Level-5 has announced in the newest issue of CoroCoro Comic that Yo-kai Watch 3 will release in Japan on July 16, 2016 for Nintendo 3DS, and it'll come in Sushi and Tempura versions. [Thanks, Game Jouhou.

Golden Bomber is in charge of the opening theme "Odoru Ponpokorin" for anime "Chibi Maruko-chan". SEE ALSO: Golden Bomber to release new single 'Mizushoubai wo Yamete Kurenai ka' In the opening footage for "Chibi Maruko-chan", the members hold a c...

Momoka Sasaki, six, was found dead at the bottom of the high-rise building in Osaka in Japan on Sunday. She had been watching the film with her family at about 2. 50pm local time when her father realised she was missing, Fuji TV reported.

Outside the office of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi in Ueda City NAGANO (TR) - Nagano Prefectural Police suspect that a shooting incident at an office of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi organized crime group in Ueda City on Tuesday is related to an ongoing gang...

Fire damaged 6 buildings in Golden-gai on Tuesday TOKYO (TR) - Fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in the historic eating and drinking district of Golden-gai in Shinjuku Ward, reports NHK (April 12). At approximately 1:20 p.

Following the Japanese edition posted in February, Gundam. Info's offcial YouTube channel today posted the English-dubbed second trailer for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin III Akatsuki no Houki (Dawn of Rebellion), the third chapter of the four-ep...

Compile Heart announced in this week's issue of Dengeki PlayStation that their upcoming dungeon crawler RPG Godly Prison Tower: Mary Skelter will release in Japan on October 13, 2016 for PlayStation Vita.

San Francisco, CA, April 11, 2016 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, announces that it will welcome the creators of the POKÉMON ADVENTURES manga (graphic novel) series...

My Hero Academia anime series has premiered already last April 3, with the 2nd episode that followed suit this week. It is safe to say that the anime adaption of K? hei Horikoshi's manga series is not only a hit in Weekly Shonen Jump but also on t...

The currently airing Boku no Hero Academia has gotten some trailers for its soon-to-arrive 3DS title "My Hero Academia: Battle for All", offering up what many believe may likely be another generic fighting game - a fact that will likely not matter...

Publisher NIS America today announced Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness, a visual novel based on the titular anime coming to PS4 and PS Vita on September 13. The VN stars new protagonists Nadeshiko Kugatachi, described as "a calm and serious inspec...

You can feel it. Leaves are falling, the weather is cooling and autumn is in the air. Oh, and there's a new season of anime. Here's a look at what to watch and where to watch it. As we do year after year and season after season, here is Kotaku's l...

In Japan, artists, illustrators, and doujinshi creators are worried about the new Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, or TPP, which is an agreement among 12 countries in the Pacific Rim, namely Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malay...

Internet users offer counterpoints that suggest disgruntled high school student may, in fact, not know everything. Japan, in general, holds education to be extremely important, and so on average Japanese teens tend to be much more studious than th...

Flying Witch Episode #1 A teenage witch takes her first broom ride away from home. Which witch is which? What They Say: Episode #1: "It's Been Six Years" The entry-level witch, Makoto Kowata, leaves her parents' house as she begins high school.

Fans living in the west no longer need to wait for fans who speak Japanese to post fan-made translations of the manga series "Attack on Titan" as they used to do in previous chapters of the series. Because of a momentous deal between Kodansha Comi...